Struggling through the scorching summer heat can be a draining ordeal. When you’re baking in the hot sun, you’re desperately longing for the one thing that can revive you—a nice, cool, refreshing dose of sword-and-sorcery! Fortunately, your friends at DMR Books have you covered this summer.
Read MoreThe feeling one gets from much of Maxfield Parrish's most iconic work is that of 'hyper-reality' and 'enchantment'. His intensely vibrant paintings are like photos taken in high definition in a dimension slightly more magical than ours.
Read MoreThis past weekend at the Detroit Bookfest, we gave away the last of our print copies of the special limited edition booklet Two Tales of Witchery. For those who missed out, fret not; it’s now available as a free download!
Read MoreIt is often said that good characters are complex like real people. The truth is that real people are complex to the point of contradiction. Four writers come to mind who understand that: Robert E. Howard, Mike Grell, Gene Wolfe, and Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Read MoreMarvel Comic’s John Carter, Warlord of Mars debuted in 1977. It had great writers and great art…but was gone far too soon. Regardless, it echoed on into Marvel’s Star Wars series and even one of the ‘X-books’ of the 1980s.
Read MoreExcalibur, directed by John Boorman, had a lot going against it in 1981. One thing it did not have going against it was Bob Peak being its cinema poster artist.
Read MoreToday marks the two-hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence, of course. However, it also marks other notable anniversaries...several with connections to Robert E. Howard.
Read MoreJames Allison remembers the days when mammoths roamed…and when eldritch horror was cloaked in deceptive beauty.
Read More"The Valley of the Worm" is one of Robert E. Howard's most celebrated tales of heroic fantasy. Howard intended for his story to narrate an archetypal legend—that of man versus monster—which has been repeated from generation to generation since the dawn of mankind.
Read MoreH. Rider Haggard burst upon the literary scene in the late nineteenth century with novels like King Solomon’s Mines and She. He essentially created the ‘exotic adventure’ macro-genre, influencing the creators of Tarzan, Conan, James Bond and Indiana Jones. Over a hundred years after his death, Haggard’s books are still in print, biographies are being published and documentaries are being made about his creations.
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